Steamboat Springs

With Colorado Mountain College (CMC) and its new academic center
poised to welcome students for the fall semester, campus officials
announced another innovative component of the 60,000 square-foot
building.To better provide a more-relevant education to CMC students, the "college" introduced a new, massive marijuana Grow Room as part of its new facilities.

"The new academic center will also contain a state-of-the-art
Grow Room," announced Campus President Pieder Piper. "To comply
with our LEED silver certification, the grow room will, of course,
be Energy Star rated."

With the fall 2011 introduction of a four-year degree in
Sustainability Studies, the college began offering courses in
sustainable agriculture, ecology and natural-resource management,
and sustainable business.

"Students repeatedly raised concerns about the damage caused by
unauthorized marijuana farming in our national forests," said
sustainability professor Sandy Moss. "Obviously we are not in a
position to influence the practices of the Mexican drug cartels.
However, one of our mission goals is to make the education we
provide relevant to our students. To that end, this year we are
expanding our curriculum to provide students with the background to
educate people on the proper, sustainable way to grow...

After living in its mother's basement in Steamboat Springs for
more than a decade, Pirate Theatre is finally "leaving the nest"
and taking its show on the road. The troupe's latest multimedia
musical comedy, "Powder Haze: A Day in the Life at a Ski Town,"
will be performing at the Boulder International Fringe Festival
from Aug. 23-25, 2012, in the legendary People's Republic of
Boulder, Colo.Pirate Theatre's new show hits Steamboat on Aug. 18, 2012, before rolling down into Boulder.

However, the group needed to take some baby steps before leaving
its beloved home, so it scheduled a one-time performance in
Steamboat Springs on Saturday, August 18, at 8 p.m. But in order to
get their coddled and insecure prima donna performers out of their
comfort zones, the show will be held, for the first time ever, at
the outdoor stage in Gondola Square (buy tix here or at All
That Jazz in Steamboat).

"It's about damn time those kids got out of my basement and
tried to do something with their lives," said Gaia Pirate, the
mother whose basement was a comfortable haven to Pirate Theatre for
so many years. "Most of them are grown men and women, yet the idea
of doing something outside of Steamboat had them pissing in their
knickers."

A collection of Yampa Valley investors and real estate
developers announced plans to build an ambitious and unprecedented
project on land hear the Hayden airport: a Roman-style Coliseum and
Orgyhouse. To help sell the project, the group hopes to recruit a
Steamboat Olympian to add to the team, although that aspect, like
the entire project itself, hasn't been fully developed.Three Men and an Olympian Group paid a local artist a hefty sum to create this rendering of what the proposed Coliseum and Orgyhouse would look like, should the group perform a miracle and get all the approval they need.

"Because we don't actually have an Olympian onboard yet, we
settled on the name of Three Men and an Olympian, just to let the
public know that, at some point, we will have an Olympian on our
side," said Hayden developer Haagen Daas, one of the Three Men in
the title. "We've been in contact with several ski jumpers, some
bumpers and one aspiring basket weaver, should that ever become an
Olympic sport, but no takers so far. We're also looking into some
16-year-old girl who should make the Olympics, if we can convince
her parents that being the spokesperson for a Roman Coliseum and
Orgyhouse is the right move for a 16-year-old girl."